Social Innovation is becoming an increasingly important topic in our global society. Those organizations which are able to develop business solutions to the most urgent social and ecological challenges will be the leading companies of tomorrow. Social Innovation not only creates value for...

Handelsunternehmen prägen und prägten das Wirtschaftsgeschehen und unsere Gesellschaft seit jeher wesentlich. Neben dem vorrangigen Bestreben, Gewinn zu generieren, verfolgen sie oftmals auch soziale Ziele. Eva Lienbacher nimmt eine grundlegende, deskriptive Aufarbeitung der...

Part 1: Rethinking Social Entrepreneurship -- Part 2: Implementing Social Entrepreneurship -- Part 3: The Institutionalization of Social Entrepreneurship -- Part 4: The Future of Social Entrepreneurship.

Vorwörter -- 1. Theoretische Grundlagen CSR und Geschäftsmodelle -- 2. Bestandteile nachhaltiger Geschäftsmodelle namhafter Großunternehmen -- 3. KMU und nachhaltige Geschäftsmodelle -- 4. Nachhaltigkeits-Pioniere -- 5. Handlungsempfehlungen.

Extreme poverty continues to afflict the world, and it requires urgent action. Social innovation can be the driving force to spark change and to find common ground for shared value creation, particularly when it is directed at low-income markets. Leading companies have recently developed...

List of contributors Acknowledgement Aspects, determinants and outcomes of Corporate Social Action; Ronny Manos, Israel Drori PART I: REVIEW OF CSA AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE 1. Corporate social responsibility and financial performance; Dennis J. Aigner 2. Corporate social action in developing...

Dieses Open-Access-Buch erläutert ein Handlungsmodell zur Gestaltung sozialer Versorgung. Das Modell beinhaltet 16 Gestaltungsaufgaben, die sich an den wesentlichen Planungs- und Steuerungsaufgaben sozialer Versorgung und den vier Phasen eines Managementkreislaufes (Analyse,...

Part I. Theoretical Contextualization -- 1. Embedding Diversity in Social Entrepreneurial Research: India’s Learning Laboratories; Shambu Prasad and Joseph Satish V -- 2. Education Conversations: Situating Social Enterprise in India’s Education Discourse; Isabel Salovaara -- 3. Foremost...

Highlighting the motivations of B Corp entrepreneurs in Chile, this book explores the phenomenon behind for-profit organisations that are committed to social and ecological sustainability as well as human welfare. By examining the personal and social drivers of businesses which are not solely...

This book describes the 60-year history of the AO Foundation and its impact on the treatment of bone trauma. Originally founded by a group of Swiss surgeons, the AO has since established its osteosynthesis treatment approach to trauma, using surgery and implants, as the global standard. The AO...